To my ears, it sounds like his first word was the most sincere and the correction was an attempt to avoid political grief. But sure...we can all interpret things differently.
I'm not going to be dragged sideways in this discussion when the larger point remains. The left has a serious Islam problem. The leaders and spokespeople for the left spend far too much of their time rationalizing away the negative elements, apologizing for the political and cultural failures of the Islamic nations of the world, and ignoring the great harm their more radical elements do (while never requiring the less radical groups to take a stand against these violent attacks). I promise...I will try to see things from your perspective, as well, here...but from my perspective...I see a very...very serious problem in this world...a problem that could well lead to a global war on a scale we've never seen before...I see a clear enemy combatant and I see absolutely ZERO resolve on the part of the developed nations of the world to fight that combatant aggressively. I see an American and European left that is far more worried about acts of retribution by their own citizens against innocent Muslims than about the attacks themselves or the demands many of even the supposedly moderate groups like CAIR place on our culture to adapt to service them without themselves adapting. And I don't like what I see.